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In the US usually bills are written by private corporations

This should be illegal.

Sure, but you see it's not a 'bribe' if you just call it 'lobbying', and corporations are people, so all good.

Why would they make it illegal? I know why you would want them to. But I don’t understand projecting wants onto power over us.

You're right. My gut reaction was that it should be illegal because it's the government's job to legislate, not the private sector's. But having the private sector write legislation doesn't violate the government's duty. The government fulfills their role by passing it.

While it still seems ripe for conflict of interest, I suppose it's not much worse than could happen if everything was kept internal to the government.

It should be illegal for businesses to write our laws (the lawmakers do not even read them - so your point about govt fulfilling their duty is a thin one). But power doesn’t work that way, this is the result of power acting in its own interest. Solution is to strip this power

> But having the private sector write legislation doesn't violate the government's duty. The government fulfills their role by passing it.

So massive CEO wages are justified then considering its your boss or the boss of the largest company in your line of work helping to write the legislation?

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